AMERICA'S COUNTER MOVE
USB OF SUBMARINE CHASERS BRITISH ASSISTANCE SOUGHT. (UNITES PRESS ASSOCIATION,—COPXUSU.) - (AUSTRALIAN . SEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 28th April. A White House spokesman announced that President Harding had completed the plan providing for the full use of naval and military forces to suppress liquor smuggling. The President has requested the Department of Justice to rule whether such forces may be used to enforce civil prohibition. If the ruling ia favourable, a fleet of fast submarine chasers will immediately bo assigned to patrol the coast, with militaryguards ashore to prevent a landing. The United States has again asked Britain's diplomatic support in the suppression of smuggling, suggesting' that the United States bo informed when-; ever large liquor cargoes leave Britain, while the United States would reciprocally inform Britain of American ex. ports that mig-W illegally be U6ed in British territory.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 101, 30 April 1923, Page 7
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141AMERICA'S COUNTER MOVE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 101, 30 April 1923, Page 7
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